[olug] 10 gig pci express network card?

Phil Brutsche phil at brutsche.us
Tue Aug 28 14:39:21 UTC 2007


Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> My advice would be to make sure you need/can use 10 Gb interconnects 
> before paying the premium for them.  Perhaps you could get by with just 
> channel bonding 2 or 3 1 Gbps links.  (All our servers have 2x1 Gbps 
> ports on board and we could add another card if needed.)

Neal did say that this is for replication between 2 NAS boxes, link
aggregation aka channel bonding won't help any.

If you were talking about the link between the NAS and the switch I
would agree.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us



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